Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I made a
salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm vinaigrette
of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed shallots. Served it
over big homemade croutons (toasts, really). Topped it w/ crumbled bacon,
crumbled French feta (the recipe called for blue cheese, but I prefer the
feta, having tried it both ways), and lots of chopped fresh parsley and
basil. Yum. My husband loves this salad so much that we just eat it in
entree-sized portions now.

Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy of
Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a few
choices), and it was quite nice.

This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in his
little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got more
tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery and got a
crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato (well, two!) with
a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of fresh basil, and lots
of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices. Hubby and the kids had
BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum galette with some leftover
pastry from Friday...that was very tasty, but the plums were quite tart,...a
little vanilla ice cream on top solved that one!

And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from our
bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a really spicy
grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime dressing and
cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili garlic sauce (two
thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with shrimp and ground chicken.
That dish was supposed to have a spicy basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce
wasn't spicy, and there was very little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't
order that one again). It wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt
like trying some dishes that we hadn't tried before.

And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner. We're
bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes: vanilla ice cream
and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/ small star cookie cutters
(works pretty well; we just use a slightly larger pan so the brownies are a
little flatter). Probably some chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and
this dessert was his idea), though I think some fresh raspberries would be
nice.

Chris

"Chris and Bob Neidecker" > wrote in
:

> Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I
> made a salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm
> vinaigrette of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed
> shallots. Served it over big homemade croutons (toasts, really).
> Topped it w/ crumbled bacon, crumbled French feta (the recipe called
> for blue cheese, but I prefer the feta, having tried it both ways),
> and lots of chopped fresh parsley and basil. Yum. My husband loves
> this salad so much that we just eat it in entree-sized portions now.
>
> Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy
> of Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a
> few choices), and it was quite nice.
>
> This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in
> his little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got
> more tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery
> and got a crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato
> (well, two!) with a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of
> fresh basil, and lots of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices.
> Hubby and the kids had BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum
> galette with some leftover pastry from Friday...that was very tasty,
> but the plums were quite tart,...a little vanilla ice cream on top
> solved that one!
>
> And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from
> our bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a
> really spicy grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime
> dressing and cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili
> garlic sauce (two thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with
> shrimp and ground chicken. That dish was supposed to have a spicy
> basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce wasn't spicy, and there was very
> little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't order that one again). It
> wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt like trying some
> dishes that we hadn't tried before.
>
> And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner.
> We're bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes:
> vanilla ice cream and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/
> small star cookie cutters (works pretty well; we just use a slightly
> larger pan so the brownies are a little flatter). Probably some
> chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and this dessert was his idea),
> though I think some fresh raspberries would be nice.
>
> Chris

Ummm... You're gustatory weekend sounds delicious!

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

"Chris and Bob Neidecker" > wrote in
:

> Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I
> made a salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm
> vinaigrette of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed
> shallots. Served it over big homemade croutons (toasts, really).
> Topped it w/ crumbled bacon, crumbled French feta (the recipe called
> for blue cheese, but I prefer the feta, having tried it both ways),
> and lots of chopped fresh parsley and basil. Yum. My husband loves
> this salad so much that we just eat it in entree-sized portions now.
>
> Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy
> of Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a
> few choices), and it was quite nice.
>
> This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in
> his little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got
> more tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery
> and got a crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato
> (well, two!) with a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of
> fresh basil, and lots of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices.
> Hubby and the kids had BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum
> galette with some leftover pastry from Friday...that was very tasty,
> but the plums were quite tart,...a little vanilla ice cream on top
> solved that one!
>
> And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from
> our bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a
> really spicy grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime
> dressing and cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili
> garlic sauce (two thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with
> shrimp and ground chicken. That dish was supposed to have a spicy
> basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce wasn't spicy, and there was very
> little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't order that one again). It
> wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt like trying some
> dishes that we hadn't tried before.
>
> And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner.
> We're bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes:
> vanilla ice cream and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/
> small star cookie cutters (works pretty well; we just use a slightly
> larger pan so the brownies are a little flatter). Probably some
> chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and this dessert was his idea),
> though I think some fresh raspberries would be nice.
>
> Chris

Ummm... You're gustatory weekend sounds delicious!

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

>> Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I
>> made a salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm
>> vinaigrette of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed
>> shallots. Served it over big homemade croutons (toasts, really).
>> Topped it w/ crumbled bacon, crumbled French feta (the recipe called
>> for blue cheese, but I prefer the feta, having tried it both ways),
>> and lots of chopped fresh parsley and basil. Yum. My husband loves
>> this salad so much that we just eat it in entree-sized portions now.
>>
>> Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy
>> of Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a
>> few choices), and it was quite nice.
>>
>> This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in
>> his little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got
>> more tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery
>> and got a crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato
>> (well, two!) with a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of
>> fresh basil, and lots of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices.
>> Hubby and the kids had BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum
>> galette with some leftover pastry from Friday...that was very tasty,
>> but the plums were quite tart,...a little vanilla ice cream on top
>> solved that one!
>>
>> And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from
>> our bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a
>> really spicy grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime
>> dressing and cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili
>> garlic sauce (two thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with
>> shrimp and ground chicken. That dish was supposed to have a spicy
>> basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce wasn't spicy, and there was very
>> little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't order that one again). It
>> wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt like trying some
>> dishes that we hadn't tried before.
>>
>> And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner.
>> We're bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes:
>> vanilla ice cream and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/
>> small star cookie cutters (works pretty well; we just use a slightly
>> larger pan so the brownies are a little flatter). Probably some
>> chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and this dessert was his idea),
>> though I think some fresh raspberries would be nice.
>>
>> Chris
>
>Ummm... You're gustatory weekend sounds delicious!
>
>--
>Wayne in Phoenix


Oh, this all sounds so good! Now I know what I am having for
lunch...buschetta-ish lunch on a bagette that needs to be finished up. And,
tomorrow, when the grocery is open, I will give that salad a try. It sure
sounds like a winner! Thanks for posting!

>> Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I
>> made a salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm
>> vinaigrette of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed
>> shallots. Served it over big homemade croutons (toasts, really).
>> Topped it w/ crumbled bacon, crumbled French feta (the recipe called
>> for blue cheese, but I prefer the feta, having tried it both ways),
>> and lots of chopped fresh parsley and basil. Yum. My husband loves
>> this salad so much that we just eat it in entree-sized portions now.
>>
>> Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy
>> of Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a
>> few choices), and it was quite nice.
>>
>> This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in
>> his little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got
>> more tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery
>> and got a crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato
>> (well, two!) with a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of
>> fresh basil, and lots of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices.
>> Hubby and the kids had BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum
>> galette with some leftover pastry from Friday...that was very tasty,
>> but the plums were quite tart,...a little vanilla ice cream on top
>> solved that one!
>>
>> And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from
>> our bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a
>> really spicy grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime
>> dressing and cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili
>> garlic sauce (two thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with
>> shrimp and ground chicken. That dish was supposed to have a spicy
>> basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce wasn't spicy, and there was very
>> little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't order that one again). It
>> wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt like trying some
>> dishes that we hadn't tried before.
>>
>> And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner.
>> We're bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes:
>> vanilla ice cream and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/
>> small star cookie cutters (works pretty well; we just use a slightly
>> larger pan so the brownies are a little flatter). Probably some
>> chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and this dessert was his idea),
>> though I think some fresh raspberries would be nice.
>>
>> Chris
>
>Ummm... You're gustatory weekend sounds delicious!
>
>--
>Wayne in Phoenix


Oh, this all sounds so good! Now I know what I am having for
lunch...buschetta-ish lunch on a bagette that needs to be finished up. And,
tomorrow, when the grocery is open, I will give that salad a try. It sure
sounds like a winner! Thanks for posting!

>> Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I
>> made a salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm
>> vinaigrette of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed
>> shallots. Served it over big homemade croutons (toasts, really).
>> Topped it w/ crumbled bacon, crumbled French feta (the recipe called
>> for blue cheese, but I prefer the feta, having tried it both ways),
>> and lots of chopped fresh parsley and basil. Yum. My husband loves
>> this salad so much that we just eat it in entree-sized portions now.
>>
>> Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy
>> of Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a
>> few choices), and it was quite nice.
>>
>> This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in
>> his little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got
>> more tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery
>> and got a crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato
>> (well, two!) with a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of
>> fresh basil, and lots of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices.
>> Hubby and the kids had BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum
>> galette with some leftover pastry from Friday...that was very tasty,
>> but the plums were quite tart,...a little vanilla ice cream on top
>> solved that one!
>>
>> And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from
>> our bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a
>> really spicy grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime
>> dressing and cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili
>> garlic sauce (two thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with
>> shrimp and ground chicken. That dish was supposed to have a spicy
>> basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce wasn't spicy, and there was very
>> little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't order that one again). It
>> wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt like trying some
>> dishes that we hadn't tried before.
>>
>> And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner.
>> We're bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes:
>> vanilla ice cream and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/
>> small star cookie cutters (works pretty well; we just use a slightly
>> larger pan so the brownies are a little flatter). Probably some
>> chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and this dessert was his idea),
>> though I think some fresh raspberries would be nice.
>>
>> Chris
>
>Ummm... You're gustatory weekend sounds delicious!
>
>--
>Wayne in Phoenix


Oh, this all sounds so good! Now I know what I am having for
lunch...buschetta-ish lunch on a bagette that needs to be finished up. And,
tomorrow, when the grocery is open, I will give that salad a try. It sure
sounds like a winner! Thanks for posting!

ojunk (Mama2EandJ) wrote in
:

> Oh, this all sounds so good! Now I know what I am having for
> lunch...buschetta-ish lunch on a bagette that needs to be finished up.
> And, tomorrow, when the grocery is open, I will give that salad a
> try. It sure sounds like a winner! Thanks for posting!
>

Your grocery isn't open on Sunday? Where do you live?

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

ojunk (Mama2EandJ) wrote in
:

> Oh, this all sounds so good! Now I know what I am having for
> lunch...buschetta-ish lunch on a bagette that needs to be finished up.
> And, tomorrow, when the grocery is open, I will give that salad a
> try. It sure sounds like a winner! Thanks for posting!
>

Your grocery isn't open on Sunday? Where do you live?

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.